“Late night tacos and acquisition rumors = just another Sunday night at SXSW.”- Jenna Wortham, tech reporter, The New York Times

“Next year at SXSW maybe a marketing agency can pay homeless people to run in a wheel all day and generate enough power to charge iPhones.”- Zach Epstein, executive editor at BGR Media, LLC

“When a friend reports mtg someone they admire via the Twitter + you refrain from replying to let them know that person’s a total d—.”- Jen Bekman, founder and CEO of 20×200

“Taxi to Belfast airport. Spent big part of it explaining e=mc2 to the taxi driver plus why Germany didn’t get the bomb.”- Charles Arthur, The Guardian’s technology editor

“While we teach kids to code, should we not examine what it means for them to think like a coder? What mindset comes from the skills?”- Ben Hammersley, editor at large of the UK edition of WIRED magazine

“Rule #1 of TV dramas: If you hear a character cough, they’re going to die soon from some virus, poison, or biological agent.”- Matt Cutts, Google engineer

“Some people give up too quickly because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten.”- Art Jonak,CEO, Network Professionals

“I think paywalls are disrespectful to the reporters doing amazing work at a publication. Reporters want to be read!”- Sarah Lacy, reporter and senior editor at TechCrunch